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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.

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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Difficult Problem Rewards
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Better Get Little Machine Politically
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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Special Thinking Trying
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Change Giving Thinking
The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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Assumption Evolution Realization
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Balance Lines Physics
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Computer Men Technology
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Mind Nature Nourishment Vigor
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Earth Nouns Verbs
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Guitar Leadership Strength
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Behavior Humanity Social Tasks
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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Order Survival Tasks
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Earth Space Sun System Zooming
The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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Goal Greek Support
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Dog Politician Tails